potence

[ poht-ns ]
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noun

Origin of potence

1
1375–1425; late Middle English <Old French <Latin potentiapotency

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How to use potence in a sentence

  • In truth, the concentration of his thought on the fragment of stone had been enough of itself to give a talisman occult potence.

    Heart of the Blue Ridge | Waldron Baily
  • Genius has never fruited to full bloom and potence, because the mothers have so seldom realised the greatness of their task.

    Feminism and Sex-Extinction | Arabella Kenealy
  • They rob them, accordingly, of the greatest transfiguring potence and happiness of life.

    Feminism and Sex-Extinction | Arabella Kenealy
  • A rapid occupation Must start the needful perspiration, And through thy frame the liquor's potence fling.

    Faust | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  • Their left was arranged en potence, their right was drawn up in echelon.

    First and Last | H. Belloc